Clostridium in 3 day old chicks?

[MarionIN4Chickens]

Did you ever figure out what it was? I have 15 babies that are a week and a half old. One has scissor beak and another still looks maybe three days old. The other 14 including the one with scissor beak are growing and like 5 times as big as him. They’re all getting adult feathers but this one little guy even though he’s acting normal still looks like he did at 3 or 4 days old. No pin feathers no bigger nothing. I have been waiting for him to suddenly catch up since he isn’t acting any different than the others

 

[Susan Skylark]

My runts only lived 3-5 days and never grew, in broiler chickens with Clostridium perfringens (necrotic enteritis) subclinical infections and those that survive it often suffer damage to the gut and don’t grow as well or gain weight resulting in economic loss if spread across enough birds, if it is only 1 bird affected in this case I’d lean towards developmental issues on his part rather than an infectious, toxic, or nutritional cause, I had 20 percent death loss in two genetically separate batches, all unaffected birds growing normally. I initially had 1/6 die and thought it was just him, but a month later I had 5/24 doing the same thing. Developmental issues would be on the top of my list unless you start noticing the same pattern in more birds, nurse him along and see what happens, my wry neck chick is certainly spunky! Won’t breed him but as long as he can survive on his own I’ll let him!

 

[Susan Skylark]

Are those cedar shavings? If so I’d switch to pine for quail and rodents, they can give off gases/smells that can be toxic to delicate lungs.

 

[MarionIN4Chickens]

Are those cedar shavings? If so I’d switch to pine for quail and rodents, they can give off gases/smells that can be toxic to delicate lungs.

Yes they are the ones that the feed supply store suggested but they have since been switched out for pine